Fourteen Montgomery County artists—who work in paint, wood, glass, mixed media, photography and jewelry--are among the 165 jury-selected to participate in the fifth annual A-RTS at Rockville Town Square Fine Art Festival on May 6 and 7. Live music and artisanal foods will enhance the outdoor gallery experience.

Nilimma Devi won the Lifetime Achievement Award in the 2013 County Executive’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities. Four years later, the artist, educator and choreographer continues to create and achieve. Devi is the founder and director of the Silver Spring-based Sutradhar Institute of Dance and Related Arts (SIDRA), which presents View more

More than five decades ago, when the D.C. Transit system began to replace its street cars with buses, local folks took an interest in preserving them, said Ken Rucker who has been with the National Capital Trolley Museum for 48 years. Since then, the museum, located in Colesville’s Northwest Branch Park, has preserved and interpreted the history of View more

Ali Oliver-Krueger is as content to share her unique take on the fine art of story theatre in the Washington metro area as in faraway Kenya. The comfort level of InterAct Story Theatre’s executive and artistic director was likely nurtured by her experience of growing up as an Army brat; living on an Army base in Japan as well as in a variety of stateside View more

For the most part, neither man nor woman cannot live by music alone, and this is true even before the proposed budget cuts that threaten our nation. Both performers in the March 31 Washington Musica Viva (WMV) concert—pianist (and WMV cofounder) Carl Banner and cellist Bonnie Thron—have lived that fact—as has Dr. Bill Robinson, composer of one View more

A day without a woman? Not at Forum Theatre. Amid its Season 13, the Silver Spring theater presents its #NastyWomenRep, reclaiming the epithet then-candidate Donald Trump hurled at Hillary Clinton mid-debate with a pair of young-women-centric stories that are written, directed, designed and (mostly) performed by an all-female creative team.

A flock of commuters lost in transit for more than a decade will once again grace the walls of Silver Spring’s Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center with the return of the Penguin Rush Hour mural. Depicting dozens of the black-and-white birds streaming through the Metro station and boarding Metro cars--briefcases and fare cards in hand—the artwork is View more

Never underestimate the power of art. The mere act of viewing art has been shown to boost immunity and stave off disease, according to a 2015 University of California, Berkeley study published in the journal “Emotion.” By extension, imagine the healing properties of creating art. The Studio Downstairs at CREATE Arts Center in Downtown Silver Spring View more

Andrés Salguero, who won the Latin GRAMMY for Best Latino Children’s Album in November, presented his highly spirited bilingual songfest "Uno Dos Tres Andrés!" at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School (NHE) in Silver Spring on Dec. 22. Head Start, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classes attended his first show, first- and second-graders, the View more

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